moved to cloud, Baker says.
"But if you have high data and
transaction-intensity workloads
with demanding requirements
around governance, control and
privacy protection, then you are in
the sweet spot for the mainframe."
privacy-banking and healthcare
are two industries that have
extremely high and increasing
regulatory burdens.
Other clients have started
on the public cloud for some
workloads, but as their needs
have evolved, they've found it
more economical to run in their
own on-premises cloud. "From my
perspective, IT is additive," Baker
says. "Few deployed things of any
real substance just go away. They
get reused, integrated with and
Choosing a Cloud
For enterprises considering cloud
computing, there are numerous
possibilities to consider. Should
a company operate its own cloud
(i.e., on-premises) or work with
a public cloud provider (i.e.,
off-premises)?
In considering a cloud
environment, Baker says the
chief question enterprises need
to ask themselves is: "What does
the workload demand?" What
are the security requirements,
for instance? How customized
does the solution need to be?
What are the performance
requirements? Depending on the
answers, enterprises might wish
to consider yet another approach.
This is the hybrid cloud, which
allows organizations to use their
own private clouds for some
workloads and the public one for
others, depending on the need.
(Determine what cloud solution
is right for your organization
and workloads in "Open and
Connected" on page 26.)
The hybrid cloud option is
gaining more traction in the
marketplace, particularly with
larger clients that have complex
needs. "From the mainframe
perspective, the major industries
we play in-banking, finance,
healthcare, insurance, retail-are
all looking at a hybrid model,"
Baker says. "Some clients have
told us, 'We will always have our
own data centers, we will always
run our own infrastructure and
platforms for some workloads,
and we will evolve those systems
toward a cloud model.' " This is
primarily driven by security and
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